Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > This is my feeling on the matter. > > The original post suggests that it is the CLN developer who requested > that their software not be bundled with VC++ libraries. I think we > should respect their wishes. If we exclude their software from the > bundle, we are not taking a legal position, or saying that we agree with > the developer. We are merely graciously agreeing to the developer's wishes. > > I personally disagree with the CLN developer, and I think that their > position on this matter hurts them, and hurts the open-source movement > as a whole. But that is not my call to make. > > If the license clearly allowed the CLN binaries to be bundled with VC++ > libraries, then I think we would be in a good place to go against the > wishes of the CLN developer. But given that reasonable people can > disagree with the interpretation, and in the absence of any arbitrating > ruling, I think we need to give in to the CLN developer's request. > > I think the only recourse is to politely ask the CLN developer to change > his mind. But if he/she doesn't, we should live with it. > > I kind off agree that we should respect a developers position about the use of their code even if we disagree with the legal position, except that the CLN developers position essentially means that no Octave VC++ installer is possible as the user would be required to download the additional components themselves.... So accepting the CLN's developers position has ramifications beyond the octave symbolic package... So getting the FSF's position is important.
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